Miami Marlins

Matt den Dekker, a Fort Lauderdale native who starred at Westminster Academy and the University of Florida, has joined the Marlins on a minor league deal with an invite to big league camp. “Excited to be back home,” den Dekker said in a text. “I’ll be in spring training competing for a spot.” den...

Aroldis Chapman, one of the high-end free-agent closers the Marlins have been pursuing, agreed late Wednesday night to sign a five-year, $86 million contract with the New York Yankees, according to multiple reports. Miami remains in pursuit of Kenley Jansen, the lone remaining elite reliever on...

With a productive, hole-patching day of inexpensive free-agent additions at the Winter Meetings on Wednesday, the Marlins’ 2017 roster is starting to come into focus. The team agreed to terms on one-year contracts with backup catcher A.J. Ellis, back-end starting pitcher Jeff Locke and middle reliever...

The Winter Meetings are over. The Marlins' pursuit of a high-end reliever is not. Miami's decision-makers headed back to South Florida on Thursday afternoon having checked off several items on their offseason shopping list — back-end starter (Jeff Locke), backup catcher (A.J. Ellis) and middle...

When Team USA takes the field for its World Baseball Classic home games at Marlins Park next spring, at least one of the players will really feel at home: Christian Yelich. Yelich and Joe Torre, general manager for the U.S. squad, confirmed to the Sun Sentinel on Monday that the Marlins’ 25-year-old...

As Michael Hill, the Marlins’ president of baseball operations, stood at the end of a hallway on the 12th floor of a gigantic hotel just south of Washington, D.C., his phone nearly said more than he did — the ring of a phone call, the ding of a text, the ping of an email. So it goes this week at...

In an effort to heat up the Hot Stove, the Miami Marlins are headed to the cold. Miami's decision-makers will be in National Harbor, Md., Sunday night through Thursday for baseball's Winter Meetings, an annual gathering of the league's front offices and others that tends to spur trades and free-agent...

After "Saturday Night Live" and "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" and a couple of weeks in Thailand, Anthony Rizzo's victory lap is about to bring him home. Rizzo, the Parkland native and Douglas High alumnus who starred in the Chicago Cubs' World Series championship last month, will be back...

You can add another bullet point to the Marlins’ offseason to-do list: Pick a backup catcher. Jeff Mathis signed a two-year, $4 million deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday, a source confirmed to the Sun Sentinel, ending his four-year tenure as Miami’s backup backstop. The loss is a noteworthy...

The Miami Marlins tendered contracts Friday to all six of their arbitration-eligible players, a procedural formality that yielded no surprises. Teams had until 8 p.m. Friday — the so-called “non-tender deadline” — to offer 2017 contracts to their arbitration-eligible players, typically those who...

The outpouring of support and sympathy the Marlins received within Major League Baseball following the death of Jose Fernandez prompted team president David Samson to offer a public thank you Wednesday. “We compete a lot with other teams on the field and in some ways we compete off the field for...

Marlins manager Don Mattingly confirmed Wednesday what has been apparent for some time that Adam Conley and Jarred Cosart will join Wei-Yin Chen, Jose Fernandez and Tom Koehler in the starting rotation. Conley will pitch the third game of the season, in Washington, followed by Koehler and Cosart....

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra could not have been any clearer before this 114-84 loss Friday night to the Cleveland Cavaliers about what is needed for the Miami Heat to win on any night and particularly this night. "If he does not dominate at the rim, in the paint," he said of center Hassan Whiteside,...

Had the Miami Heat known then what they know now, there might have been an extra face around to help the team push through the recent injury absences. Instead, coach Erik Spoelstra said it is unlikely the team will seek an NBA hardship exception for a 16th roster player. With the extended injury...